Thursday, January 30, 2014

And time to wrap up some numbers from Comic-Con!

SO! Who's ready for some official numbers, eh?

As some of you know, I went through two months of having my ass kicked
in order to build up funds so I can go sell books at Portland City
Comic-Con. With the help of Cutie Bytes and another vendor (MEEEEEL,
wasn't it Pixel Art Productions?), I learned a lot and had a blast
selling books.

The only problem is, how many books did I sell?

First and foremost,
there's the problem with initial inventory. While I did order a
specific number of books, I also brought up extra inventory as well as a
few mistakes. Well, I started off with this, 100 books in an initial order, that goes like this:

Taboo 0 - 50 Taboo 1 - 30 Taboo 2 - 20

I figured I'd need more 0's than the rest, since most people are going
to start at the beginning of a series, especially if all they're gonna
buy is one book.

SO, I know this is what I currently have right now as of 1/29/14:

I gave away 300-400 business cards with the free download I gave away 50 postcards with all kinds of QR info on it Taboo 0 - 34 Taboo 1 - 16 Taboo 2 - 10 Taboo 1 with Mistakes - 6

Now, I gave away this many for the panel:

Taboo 0 - 3 Taboo 1 - 2 Taboo 2 - 1

And I traded this amount with other vendors:

Taboo 0 - 3 Taboo 1 - 3 Taboo 2 - 3

Ultimately, I'm guessing that THIS is what I've actually sold while I
was there, whether it be the full 10 dollars on Friday and Saturday, or 5
dollars on Sunday:

At least 4 of the Taboo 2's represent a full set (0, 1, and 2) bought
all at the same time. Which means I sold at least 5 Taboo 1's either
alone or in a set with 0.

The rest are all Taboo 0 sales.

So, there we go. Numbers everywhere! Somewhere between 21-31 books
actually sold, 6 given away, 9 traded...but this equals to around 40 new
eyes on the book, and I know of at least 5 that really enjoyed what
they read thus far.

I dunno though...what do YOU guys think? Lemme know, yeah? Successful, or not?

Either way, I've got money for the next convention and even inventory, for all that I'll need to buy more.